Google Doesn't Like My Meta Descriptions

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by Ketracel, Apr 21, 2008.

  1. #1
    This is strange, apparently Google doesn't like my blog meta descriptions. What I find strange is that my meta description is consistent, iow, repetitive. When I click to expand to read the details it lists pages from my site which contain my meta desc. which is 301 (note, nothing to do with redirect, it just happens to be three hundred and one pages)

    So what is going on here?

    I'd appreciate input from the SEO experts. How can my meta desc. not be repetitive?


    Google Webmaster Tools>Diagnostics>Content Analysis

    We've noticed some issues that may negatively impact your site's performance in our search results pages. These issues won't necessarily prevent your site from being crawled and indexed, but addressing them may improve your site's performance in search results, and may encourage users to click on links to your site. More information.
    Meta description issues Pages
    Duplicate meta descriptions 301
    Long meta descriptions 0
    Short meta descriptions 301

    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80407&hl=en
     
    Ketracel, Apr 21, 2008 IP
  2. corb

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    Can you give examples of your meta tags?
     
    corb, Apr 22, 2008 IP
  3. Jean-Luc

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    Google doesn't like short repetitive meta descriptions. Google prefers that each page of your website has its own specific meta description. The same meta description in all pages is not what Google wants. If you cannot create a different meta description for each page, it might even be better not to have any meta description.

    Jean-Luc
     
    Jean-Luc, Apr 22, 2008 IP
  4. Ketracel

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    #4
    thanks this is for a blog so the meta description is just a short, keyword rich but not spammy sentence
    any wp plugins that would let me change the meta description for my pages?
    even if I do change it, most of my pages will have to have the same meta description, right? which brings us to the same strange situation.
     
    Ketracel, Apr 23, 2008 IP
  5. webisthr

    webisthr Banned

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    But as far as i know google always prefer unique descriptions and for one blog it is obviosu u will have one only but with SEO tool you can have seperate meta description for each of your post
     
    webisthr, Apr 24, 2008 IP
  6. objx

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    It seems like you're blog is creating the tags for meta-description, but doesn't add any value to it. I would go with Jean-Luc's suggestion: dont use meta-description at all (if its possible).
     
    objx, Apr 24, 2008 IP